Director of
Education in Swaziland praises fraudulent claims of Swazi
educational excellence
Kenworthy News Media February 15, 2013
Director of Education in Swaziland, Sibongile Dlamini, warned readers
of the Times of Swaziland on Friday (15
February 2013) that writers “need to be careful of plagiarism and fraudulent
publication,” writes Kenworthy News Media.
She then went on to claim, without any apparent hint of
irony, that she was pleased to read an article in the Times of Swaziland praising the country’s education system as one
of the best in the world. “It was surprising because over the years, we have
had people criticising the education system, saying it was deteriorating.”
Swaziland is ranked 140th in the world according to the
UNDP HDI Education Index and according to a Working Paper from the
World Bank called The Education System in Swaziland, “key weaknesses pertain
to low access uneven and inequitable quality, acute inequalities, resource
inefficiency, poor relevance and weak strategic direction and delivery
capacity.”
According to a report by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa,
“clear consequences of the lack of free schooling until now are the relatively
high level of youth and adult illiteracy in Swaziland, the low mean level of
schooling among the population, and the large number of out-of school children
of primary school age.”
Sibongile Mtshali-Dlamini has a PhD from Oklahoma State
University in Philosophy in Education. She has also worked as a senior
inspector of schools in Swaziland and as a secondary school teacher.
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